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Charlene Marie Richard (January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959) was a twelve-year-old Roman Catholic Cajun girl from Richard, Louisiana) in the United StatesShe has become the focus of a popular belief that she has performed a number of miracles.
John Baptist de La Salle : the spirituality of Christian education. Paulist Press. ISBN 978-0809141623. Calcutt, Alfred (1994). De La Salle : a city saint and the liberation of the poor through education : a figure for our times from the age of Louis XIV. De La Salle. ISBN 978-0952139805.
Altar Card ("Lavabo" part). Probably from the end of the 19th century. Gothic revival style. Altar cards are three cards placed on the altar during the Tridentine Mass. [1] They contain certain prayers that the priest must say during the Mass, and their only purpose is as a memory aid, although they are usually very beautifully decorated.
A German holy card from around 1910 depicting the crucifixion The earliest known woodcut, St Christopher, 1423, Buxheim, with hand-colouring Prayer card of the Holy Face of Jesus In the Christian tradition, holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures for the use of the faithful that usually depict a religious scene or a saint in ...
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the founder of the De La Salle Brothers. The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes; Italian: Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France ...
Born in Cut Off, Louisiana. Was one of the first Cajun musicians to appear on the Louisiana Hayride and Grand Ole Opry. Was known as "the King of Cajun Singers" Also, known for 1961 Jole Blon and 1979 Cajun Country songs. Lee Benoit (born 1959), accordion player and singer; Nathan Abshire (1913-1981), Cajun accordion player
No one knows why the Cajun Catholic settlers in the Acadiana Prairie region of south Louisiana began building grave houses. There are numerous legends about how the tradition started. The significance [ 3 ] of the grave houses is uncertain; historians have variously proposed that the houses were a form of protection or a local interpretation of ...
Saint Pantaleon was the patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed, and Saints Christopher, Barbara, and Catherine of Alexandria for protection against a sudden and unprovided-for death. Saint Giles was prayed to for a good confession, and Saint Eustace as healer of family troubles.